THE RESPONSE

Chapter:

CHAPTER 18 Reformations and Counter Reformations

Source:

MUSIC FROM THE EARLIEST NOTATIONS TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Author(s):

Richard Taruskin

ex. 18-8 Benedictus Ducis Ein Lämmlein geht

That response took a turn that could never have been predicted at mid-century, when all that the leading Catholic bishops
seemed to want was an intelligible liturgy. That
trend, the one associated with Palestrina, could be interpreted as an attempt to meet the Lutheran reform musically on its
own ground—grounds of modesty. It did not threaten the ars perfecta; on the contrary, it sought to amend and thus preserve it.

Taruskin, R. (n.d.). Chapter 18 Reformations and Counter Reformations. In Oxford University Press, Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century. New York, USA.
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